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• Facebook's iOS UI development framework goes open source

  Facebook has open-sourced ComponentKit, its React-inspired framework for iOS,

• Marketers can't keep up on updating their mobile apps

  Companies' user-facing mobile apps are not being updated enough, according to a report released by Forrester Research on the state of mobile app development by "e-business professionals," meaning those who develop applications for marketing and customer-facing reasons.

• JavaScript goes native for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone apps

  NativeScript, a Telerik technology for building multiplatform native mobile apps from a single code base, is set to go to a 1.0 release in late April. Telerik is launching a beta program this week for the open source NativeScript.

• Why It Sometimes Makes Sense to Go Slow With Mobile Development

  Mobile app development is usually cheap, fast and dirty: Introduce some functionality and fix the problems over time. At Westinghouse Electric, however, there's no room for error in the development of a tablet application critical for testing the nuclear power facilities it builds for electricity providers around the world.

• How to Support Mobile App Development in Your Organization

  As consumers eschew desktops and laptops for smartphones and tablets, organizations are increasingly tasked with developing apps for those mobile devices. These apps can be harder to manage than their Web-based brethren, but agile development methods can help ease the pain.

• Old Java can learn new tricks from C, Android

  Experts say the language should crib app isolation, locality, and automated parallelism from more modern sources

• Open source plug-in speeds mobile app development

  Soasta, Cloudbees partner to connect mobile app dev to Jenkins continuous integration server, making it easier for developers to test and deploy apps to the cloud

• 5 ways to avoid mobile app development failure

  Businesses are moving fast to address the demand for both employee- and customer-facing mobile apps. However, there is a danger in rushing. Here are five ways to avoid pushing out a mobile app too soon.

• Mobile apps are a priority in search of a leader

  Traditional IT vendors aren't leading with software, and businesses aren't hiring mobile leaders, according Appcelerator's survey

• Forrester: Mobile app dev needs 'omni-channel' perspective

  Research firm says modern apps require elastic infrastructure and multichannel clients, while mobile apps are just one component of larger app architecture

• BlackBerry 10 SDK goes gold

  BlackBerry maker Research in Motion announced overnight that the SDK for the next generation of its mobile operating system has gone gold. RIM will launch the BlackBerry 10 OS in January next year.

• Developers praise Windows Phone 8 SDK, but virtualization and upgrades rankle

  Tools vendors like greater capabilities SDK brings to smartphone apps, even if new PCs are needed to test code

• Atlassian brings crash reporting, issue detection to iPhone and Android apps

  Atlassian in January plans to ship software providing crash reporting and issue detection for mobile applications.

• Android 4: Developers praise the new UI and APIs

  Early returns on the <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/google-unveils-whats-new-in-android-4-ice-cream-sandwich-176549">Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich"</a> software development kit have developers praising the unified perspective and capabilities of the Google mobile OS -- but their ability to test new apps is constrained by the lack of Android 4 devices, which also limits the market for apps that use the new OS.

• Canonical's Ubuntu Linux will battle for mobile developers

  Canonical, which has great ambitions to extend its <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/canonical-expand-ubuntu-linux-smartphones-tablets-177523">Ubuntu Linux</a> to such devices as smartphones and tablets, is prepared to reach out to developers to get them to build the applications necessary to make the platform successful. But the company will have its work cut out for it, given that established providers on the market have a substantial head start.